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by anthonyb 14y ago
My house rules were "Pick any character you like, I'll kill you anyway" :)
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by anthonyb 14y ago
One of the things that I liked about Goldeneye was just how damn many multiplayer modes there were. eg. The Klobb was a crappy gun (low damage, huge cone of fire), but switch to one-shot-kills and it's suddenly an uber weapon :) My favorite
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by anthonyb 14y ago
I can remember having trouble with Silo, that bloody 7:00 minute time limit. After a while I realised that I was having trouble aiming and had a big blind spot in one eye where the crosshair would normally be. I went to bed pretty quickly a
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by anthonyb 14y ago
We're not really talking about 'proving' things, particularly on an internet forum, but you could start with a relative lack of facial and body hair, larger heads and bigger eyes, as well as more curiosity, less aggression and a more plasti
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Sexual selection would operate on a different (neotenous) trait, and the lactase production gene would come along for the ride. Genes and organsisms are complex beasts, so traits will often be clustered together. An interesting related expe
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by anthonyb 14y ago
You have to wonder why he even bothered setting foot in the place.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Yes, but unless they can convince large publishers that writing games for Linux is a good idea, it's not much of a refuge, is it? Having a hundred thousand people sign up for his Steam group might be enough to get the ball rolling that way,
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by anthonyb 14y ago
And if a million people join the group, they'll know they're onto something.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
> Take the example of a guitarist. He turns his guitar up as high as he can, then the amp gain as high without distorting it. Then at the sound console. etc Without distorting it? Are you sure you have some sound knowledge? That doesn
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by anthonyb 14y ago
There's only three if you check the script out - Mac, .rpm and .deb. Is it really that hard to set up packages for three things? Depending on what's in there, it could also just be a node package.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Install Meteor curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh Why do people still insist on doing this? That script sudo installs a random .deb/.rpm from https://d3sqy0vbqsdhku.cloudfront.net - are you going to notice if someone ha
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Hee hee, your interpretation of his sentence is introducing ambiguities :)
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Hey napierzaza, you've been hell banned.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Coal doesn't have any C14 in it. It's millions of years old. You're thinking of other elements, like uranium.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Seems to be after this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3468011 Not sure why he was hellbanned and not Zed after that little exchange.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
I suspect this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2892050 One of the problems with downvoting new people - if they go negative, they're automatically hellbanned.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment
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by anthonyb 14y ago
It was intended as a general critique. > In general its Clarity, Brevity, Precision = Pick 2 One of those would be a good start ;) Those three actually go hand in hand. I reread your initial post - I'm still not sure what you're t
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Except that the original definition fits the current situation in IT very well.
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Probably not directly, but that's implied in the word merit, and in the higher pay and better conditions afforded to programmers.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
> I think you missed that note [2] above. I think you need to edit your posts more carefully. Clarity matters, particularly when you're discussing things in written form.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
You're dancing around the point of the article, which is that what most people here consider a programming/technical meritocracy is a corrupt meritocracy. Most people who can program, can do so because of their background, not because of
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by anthonyb 14y ago
It's statistically very likely.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Considering Kathy's history, I think she probably has a bit more experience with harassment than either you or Laura. Given that, isn't it a bit strange that you're dismissing her opinion out of hand? > To put it into an extreme exampl
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by anthonyb 14y ago
I'd say more blunt and to the point. Also, it doesn't help now, but in future it certainly will. Don't make plans around pre-release or limited hardware.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Seconded. A number of these sorts of comments pop up every time something about sexism or racism in tech hits the front page, and all they do is prove the original article's point.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Why do you need to "argue" with it? I read it as more of a precautionary tale: don't immediately dismiss something because you haven't seen it happen first hand, or it's not an issue within your immediate circle.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
you forgot 0. He's an Apple fanboy. The other reasons are just after the fact justifications.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Hammocks are also pretty comfortable. Screw a couple of hooks into the ceiling beams and away you go :)
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Indeed. With some sort of open source plan, you could get improvements very quickly. Two obvious ones that spring to mind: - make the top legs loose so that they swing down when the bed goes up - cover the base of the bed with something (fa

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